"they will allow us to have a kids meal when we are not over hungry without insisting we are under 10 years old!"

Interesting point that. It would seem that under Autralian Law, that a food business should not be able to prevent an adult buying a 'child's meal' for personal consumption, as there is no legal requirement about 'child's meals' anyway. Some pubs who serve expensive 'counter meals' (an old Aussie tradition!) refuse to serve adults with 'child meals'. They only refuse me once - I won't go back there, I will go to the next pub.



"Of course, they DO buy all those potatoes from around here...."

Amusing that. We had a big bunfight here in Oz, when certain fast food chains tried to drive down thr price of potatioes by buying them from overseas, so they could send the local farmers bankrupt in order that they would take any price - after a few years of building up the local potato industry bexcause of the huge volumes they buy...



"Still behaved appallingly vis-a-vis McLibel though"

Currently there is a poor Aussie shop owner named Mr MacDonald being sued to change the name of his business. Normally such little businesses just roll over because they don't have millions of dollars to waste on frivolous law suits. Frivolous, because they are not doing anything illegal - Mr MacDonald is entitled under law to trade under his own name. Also, if they DID have the millions of dollars, they wouldn't be running a corner shop...

A while ago, a littel guy won such a case, but the big rich bastards still play rough - another good moral reason to refuse to patronise such businesses - they are using the profit from YOUR money to harass small individuals!